Soil sealing footprint as an indicator of dispersed urban growth: a multivariate statistics approach

Urban Research and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-15

  Tombolini, Ilaria ^a   Munafò, Michele ^a   Salvati, Luca ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

economic functions; indicators; Rome; urban morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959120679     PISSN: 17535069     EISSN: 17535077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2015.1037340     Document Type: Article

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